good morning and welcome to another amazon selling video if you're new to my channel
my name is nikki kirk and i've been selling on amazon doing retail arbitrage for four years now
all from an rv so today i'm in idaho and we're gonna go into idaho falls and shop at hobby lobby
now i've only shopped at hobby lobby once or sourced i should say and i don't remember buying
anything there i do remember i went through the clearance so it'll be an adventure and i'm gonna
take you along with it to see if hobby lobby is worth sourcing so let's head into idaho falls
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so hobby lobby i'm going to start off with my mistake my mistake immediately was going right
to the halloween or i don't know if they even got halloween the like fall thanksgiving stuff
because that's where i'm going to and all the other stores but here hobby lobby has a lot of
private label stuff meaning they make it themselves so that there aren't even full barcodes
they look like barcodes but there's only like six or eight numbers there instead of the full barcode
so anyways i tried and i searched some stuff and i typed it in and i did all that um and i spent
like more time than i probably should have there the other thing with hobby lobby is kind of like
kohl's where everything is more expensive on the up front like regular retail price is way
too expensive but then they have sales all the time right and they probably have coupons like at
michael's where if you have the coupon or sign up or whatever it's cheaper so anyways the sale price
does bring some stuff down a little but it's still really expensive so there's that i did find some
name brand stuff even in that like harvest theme area so like this dash maker i know they are never
35 but here it's 34.99 but then of course it's on sale right but even on sale it doesn't make enough
money and then you look on amazon and that's probably actually that like pretty true to retail
price i bet you at every other store it's probably 19.99 i went through and i searched so there's
like this old thompson turkey brand which i thought would probably be in there but i couldn't
really find it here's a tip for you if you're ever having to type stuff in like this i typically just
go onto amazon.com like i'm going to go shopping as a customer because a lot more listings will
pop up that way then if you try to search in the seller app i kept getting books like coming up and
it was really annoying so anyways i just went to amazon.com and i searched that way and it
did save me a little bit of time so i didn't find the turkey brine but i did find these butters and
it took quite a while to search it so i'm gonna just leave it here showing you how i searched it
but i just searched the name of it and then they started to come up and then i was like you know
let me search another way so i tried another name search and i did find some listings now they do
make money as a two pack if you want to ship them fbm actually the shipping is probably what makes
money they're on sale right now but they're 9.99 anyway so they would make money on the shipping
you just have to package them right i didn't end up getting them but they are here if you care to
try that out they actually have a pretty decent rank too so that's cool so they clearly sell also
the reason you're seeing this like we don't know the fees is because they've never been sold fba so
all that means is that you have to like when you go home and list it if you were going to list it
fba which you probably could all you would do was just weigh it for these two since they're glass i
would put them in a box bubble wrap them and then weigh that box and measure that box and put that
as the measurement and now amazon will know and you can ship them fba as i was going through that
first area there is a lot of stuff there it just has really high ranks so then i headed over to the
party area where i immediately saw stuff that i've seen at walmart so i went ahead and scanned it
this is like a bigger bulk quantity of it the ones at walmart are in little bags which hit if you
ever go to walmart skin because sometimes they're worth it but anyways so here they are too high of
a ring for me in grocery for grocery i like to stick to 120 000 rank or lower and so 200 and
230 000 rank is way too high for me so after that i did find some plates they are named brand plates
they have regular upc's i scanned it but it didn't come up on the upc but i did just type in neon
party place and i found the listings they don't quite make any money though 60 cents i think it
was i'm gonna flash it here but i don't remember it was not worth it because that is gonna be
eaten up in the shipping just to get it to amazon why would i sell something to not make any money
i did go through the party plate area the cake stuff cake decorating and i found some stuff it
everything i was scanning was not like it was sold out on amazon so i thought oh i'll just try fbm so
i have a couple of them listed right now fbm and we'll see how it goes i found these rock candies
which do make a profit they're coated in like a hard candy shell so i don't think they won't melt
or i'm just wishful thinking either way i listed them fbm i don't think hobby lobby is a place that
i will continue to source because it's just too frustrating for me honestly if you are new seller
like i feel you because that's why i don't source these stores i've not sourced before because i've
gotten in my flow of like tj maxx ross walmart target like i know what i'm looking for now
and what makes money and every once in a while if you're hitting a wall or things are getting
slow it is important to branch out to a new aisle or a new store and just try some different things
but for me i'm like over it so i don't like hobby lobby i'm probably not going to make it back they
have a lot of stuff like personally i like because i like to decorate the house and stuff like that
so that i mean it's dangerous in there but as far as amazon sourcing is not for me if you're
gonna source it don't not source it just because i don't like it because you know you might like it
you might find stuff my like i said my failure was that i went to that generic first my failure was
that i went to the generic stuff first but if you do it i would actually suggest going the other way
around the store so that you go to like the toys like by the time i hit toys i was just over it
so if you go to the toy stuff like there is crafts kids crafts kits books they are all in
there a lot of the stuff that i found in the like paper crafting area was amazon's already selling
it so the price was low and hobby lobby is more expensive than that so i mean that's a ton of
examples of that so it's incredibly frustrating but at the end of the day i got some stuff that
i have listed so i guess there's that anytime i go to source a new store i give myself two hours
i make that's enough time to really scan a lot of stuff and it's a short enough time that i'm
not going to be wiped out and spent and not want to go sourcing anywhere else because i still have
a full day of sourcing ahead of me so that's just what i do and i did pick up these little
full scotch lamination cards which i'm going to use on my walmart tax exempt card because
you know it's just a piece of paper so i'm going to laminate it with those but
anyway so it wasn't a total dud i hope this video was helpful or entertaining hopefully
learned something because i'm not sure that it was all that worth it but me and hobby
lobby that's my second time scanning in there and i gotta say i don't think i'll be back
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